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Close Kitchen Inspection (8 Photos)

Amber Terranova — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:03:40 +0000

All photos © Mary Parisi. Above: “Flash in the Pan”

Mary Parisi’s artistic interpretation of food reveal moody and even sensual qualities. Tension arises between our notions of delicious food and Parisi’s close inspection of the details, challenging what appeals to our senses of sight, taste, and smell. Inspired and haunted by graphic food memories from her childhood Parisi explains, “My father made soup every Monday and when he began putting multiple pairs of bright yellow chicken feet into the broth, chicken soup was never again a simple comfort.”

“Arctic Soup”

“Unnamed Chicken”

“Rice Box”

“Meat Loaf”

“Bones”

“Ham With Absorption Pad”

“Young Chicken With Pearls”

Caren Alpert: My Life With Science, Art and Food (5 Photos)

Darren Ching — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:00:32 +0000

Life Saver © Caren Alpert

San Francisco based photographer Caren Alpert used her passion of food imagery and food issues to create her latest fine art project microscopically photographing food. Through her lens, common food items from blueberries to fortune cookies—are transformed into wondrous and often mysterious landscapes of texture and color. Alpert showed My Life With Science, Art and Food as a participant at this year’s Photolucida in Portland, Oregon.

“As a food lover and a photographer I answer these questions visually. Using scientific laboratory photo equipment, I journey over the surfaces of both organic and processed foods: my own favorites and America’s over-indulgences. The closer the lens got, the more I saw food and consumers of food (all of us!) as part of a larger eco-system than mere sustenance.” —Caren Alpert

Chocolate Cake © Caren Alpert

Fortune Cookie © Caren Alpert

Blueberry © Caren Alpert

Pineapple Leaf © Caren Alpert

Tastes of Summer (10 Photos)

Amber Terranova — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:05:27 +0000

Working mostly on location, Ed Anderson specializes in food and the people that make it happen. His use of natural light and minimal styling has appealed to a variety of editorial, advertising, and publishing clients.

Bringing Home the Bacon

Amber Terranova — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:00:31 +0000

Based in San Francisco, still life and commercial photographer Terry Heffernan has a keen eye for transforming the most simple food items into attractive and tasty displays.

The Vegetable Gardener

admin — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:00:56 +0000

“I had been working on a photography series in which I surrounded an isolated human body part with a large quantity of a certain object, when I was struck by the idea for this project. While I was photographing a human eye that was peeking out amongst hundreds of leaves, it occurred to me that I could actually utilize leaves to construct portraits or masks. I researched what other artists had created along these lines and discovered that, as usual, someone somewhere had already done something similar. In this case it was the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who made paintings with this concept in mind over 400 years ago. I decided to recreate Arcimboldo’s work, and eventually to create my own images with his paintings as inspiration.”

More Images from Klaus Enrique’s can be seen in the The Curator 2011 online gallery.

The Fatal Gourmet

Amber Terranova — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:00:05 +0000

We discovered San Francisco based food photographer Nader Khouri in the latest entries of PDN’s The Curator Fine Art Contest. To see more from this year’s Curator Awards visit the website here. To see more of Khouri’s work click here.

The 2011 Curator Awards is currently open for entries until tonight, 12 am PST.

Instant Gratification (9 photos)

Amber Terranova — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:00:23 +0000

The group photography exhibit The Pleasure Is All Mine recently opened in Chelsea to a packed house. Organized by the curatorial duo Finch & Ada, the show is a direct response to a scarcity of happiness the curators had observed in the contemporary fine art photography landscape. “We felt that at its core, an emotion such as happiness was not viewed as a serious topic. We set out to find artists with artworks that would create a “happy place” and illustrate happiness and pleasure in a variety techniques.”

Two satellite events hosted this week add to the festive mix, Wednesday evening’s emerging collector’s symposium Instant Gratification – The Pleasures of Art Collecting and an Afternoon with the Artists on Saturday from 3 to 5 pm. Full details are available on the Finch & Ada Web site. -Jill Waterman

China’s Poverty Line (3 photos)

Amber Terranova — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:00:00 +0000

In this body of work Stefen Chow investigates the definition of China’s poverty line. Chow photographed food items that could be purchased for RMB 3.28 (49 cents), which is the daily income of those earning China’s official poverty-level wage of RMB 1,196 per year. Chow says, “This is not an emotional analysis of what it means to be poor. It is an examination of the choices one would face being poor in China.”

Stefen Chow is an editorial and commercial photographer based between Beijing and Singapore who has previously summitted and photographed Mount Everest. To see more of his work click here.